4. More than half of all the lakes in the world are located in Canada! The country counts more than 3 million lakes and 31,700 big lakes with an area over 300 hectares. Canada also includes two of the biggest lakes in the world: Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake. 5. Toronto is...
is a historical building on Dohány Street in the 7th district of Budapest. It is the largest synagogue in Europe, seating 3,000 people and the second largest in the world after Temple Emanu-El in New York City. It was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival style, with...
26. Lakes can explode (Image credit: Jack Lockwood, 1986 (U.S. Geological Survey)) In Cameroon and on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo there are three deadly lakes: Nyos, Monoun and Kivu. All three are crater lakes that sit above volcanic earth. Magma below...
historic sites and affordability. Croatia has natural landscapes, including coastlines along the Adriatic Sea, with over 1,000 islands, national parks with waterfalls and lakes and rugged mountain ranges. Places like Plitvice Lakes National Park and the beaches of the Dalmatian Coast showcase the cou...
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Consider it the best of both words: an old stone home with a sensational water view. Yes, waterfront stone homes do exist. To find them, we hiked up to the Great Lakes region, where, believe it or not, stone homes dot the shorelines. ...
Are the SW lakes of the US drying?? Absolutely, we have 10’s of millions drinking off them and 100’s of sq. miles more crops being grown in the area, that would bring down lake and ground water levels wouldn’t it… How about an aquaduct system from one major river to the next...
Life in the hip Plateau neighborhood revolves around the area’s bars and cafes and the leafy Parc la Fontaine, with its serpentine lakes and albino squirrels. The neighborhood flanks the north side ofMont Royaland McGill University. Gentrification has transformed the Plateau into an artsy, upscale...